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I started this a few times. It’s been some months since we have gone anywhere here in Cambodia. For a long time we did the quick trip to Battambang but we have gone so many times I got bored with the whole thing. I can’t really leave...
I found an old blog post about my reading habits, and decided to update it for my current habits plus some funny things related to me and reading.What are yours? I mix up physical books, audiobooks and e-books and I always have several...
My review of “Iron Man 3”.
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The Gnome Shell user interface has mostly seen minor refinements and quality of life updates in recent cycles, but on the design side we’ve explored a lot of longer-term things we’d like to do. Some of these we have relatively complete...
Three days ago, I wrote the post Geohashes for my photos about my recent use of Geohashes as a short alternative to long GPS coordinates and expressed my hope that my favorite platform, Vernissage, would support them… and I created a...
I got fairly busy after my perfume escapades yesterday, both of these times I was fighting for something I believe in. One of them was a lot more draining and unpleasant than the other. Organising ProtestLet's set the scene: Tuesday,...
I have been subscribed to Clarkesworld for more than two years now—I blame Amin—but it took me this long to finally finish one of their issues. I am just terrible at reading I guess, but since they are a great sci-fi magazine I don’t...
I currently have 70,000 unread emails in my inbox. Do not @ me. (Unless you want to send me an email; then definitely @ me.) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 13 Aug, 2026 I am Deadly Serious 11 Aug, 2026 A Foggy Longing 10 Aug, 2026...
On a whim, I decided to ride my eBike on a 30+ mile ride. Men of a certain age love WWII or Civil War history; I love both types! Some quick searching of the Richmond area led me to pick Malvern Hill Battlefield as my destination....
Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Free discarded furniture on Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights. I took this photo on August 6, 2026. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic...
Weird switches Another time-consuming but deeply rewarding home repair. I love my 43-year-old Technics SU-Z15 amplifier far too much to replace it, and I’ve no excuse when there’s a detailed YouTube video of a Turkish chap repairing the...
August 12, 2026 I saw this in my RSS feed this week. It caught my attention, so I wanted to learn more about it. Embedded watermarks in text When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into...
The second day of Thor's birthday celebrations included dumplings, museums and a cabaret performance overlooking New Jersey.Currently Listening: Kate Bush “Nocturn”Reply via email
Strathfield is a suburb located in the west of Sydney, Australia. I don’t know many people living in the area, so I’m not there often, but have occasionally wandered the streets near the railway station. About a third of residents were...
After I learned how to make a Mac widget with TerminalWidget and how to determine the locations of celestial objects with Astropy, the natural thing for me to do was combine the two into a widget that tracks the planets. I’m using the...
This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates who are on the entry-level market this...
When I first created GopherMap, I made it pretty strict about what it did and didn't consider a valid map. Unsurprisingly, reality did what reality does and, pretty quickly, Rogallo met maps that didn't fit with this strict approach. So...
Here’s a video that isn’t from the place where I work (NetFoundry), but from someone works in a different part of AI security. Yet somehow they ended up at the same question that we at NetFoundry ask: How confident are you that your...
Denominación de Origen es un documental que puede verse en RTVE Play que sirve como preámbulo a la consecución del segundo Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol por parte de la selección española. Sin lugar a dudas, ha sido una de las alegrías de...
The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts is trying out something new this coming term: a dual grading system in which professors give students ordinary letter grades based on the quality of their work, but...
♠ Previously. Problem statement: make my cdg shortcut jump from a linked Git worktree back to the main checkout when already at the worktree root. The shortcut originally stopped at the current checkout’s root: alias cdg='cd "$(git...
Why read the book? Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. The story is short and direct. A lawyer named Gabriel Utterson investigates the strange behaviour of his friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the...
On KPop Demon Hunters and the limits of self-acceptance In KPop Demon Hunters, a girl group called HUNTR/X plays sold-out stadiums by day and holds a magic barrier against demons by night. Their leader, Rumi, is hiding that she is half...
There's this eclipse happening today, and later this month, another one that, according to what I've read, will be visible in Brazil. In other times, maybe in another life, I would've been excited to watch the phenomena. Idk when it...
When Jack goes to bed, some nights Becca and I find we have some time to chill out together. Right now we are using that time to rewatch Ted Lasso from the start before we start the new season. It’s such a comfort blanket of a show,...
Dear reader,I have been trying to reform my relationship with technology. From filling small moments of boredom with algorithm-driven content to spending hours on end with my devices, these issues have bothered me for years. It was time...
RebirthAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 2026Rating: ★★★★☆How do you prevent a hero from saving the world?In the first trilogy, three heroes were extracted from their timelines to save the world. Now we need them again. Meet Ben...
August 2026. Bath. I’d opted for a couple of nights down in Bath, a little luxurious but the student residences on the edge of town were cheaper than a Doncaster Travelodge, Twerton Mill’s riverside rooms near Bath City FC spotless and...
It's been 21 days since we've had to say goodbye to my soul dog, Cocoa. It has not gotten easier, but I am trying to learn how to hold the grief that is within me. I have hard days, and then harder days. There has not been any easy days....
Estos últimos días hemos estado dándole forma al nuevo Hitz. Refinando, proponiendo ideas, descartando otras, viendo qué podemos hacer para que sea un lugar acogedor donde la gente pueda caerle a conversar, ver qué pasa en la escena y...
During our time in China I’ve been amazed by the number of EVs on the roads. Nearly every car you see is rocking a green license plate, signifying it’s powered by electricity.There’s two big driving factors behind the Chinese EV push....
I had fun cosplaying at Matsucon and I went on stage too! At Matsucon this year I spent bunch of money on the artist alley, but I also had signed up for a "cosplay catwalk" which was very spooky but interesting. Photos But first some...
¿Notaron que en un punto todo requiere un registro, un feedback, una respuesta, una confirmación, una app, un método de pago y todo eso para interacciones que normalmente no deberían llevar más de 30...
Figure 1: My view of Liberty Square (自由廣場), as well as the National Concert Hall (right) and National Theater (left) from atop the steps of Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. Writing this, I have arrived at the island of Formosa, the adopted...
Meteors Shower, one might say! Long exposure of the stars from the 2017 shower; you can see one (1) streak on the right side Since I was a small child, a thing I looked forward to every year is a near-end of summer tradition where we'd...
Pictures from seeing the opera Carmina Burana live in San Francisco with a full chorus. Here you go. You can watch a performance (not the one we attended, unfortunately) here if you like.
I received my pre-ordered Clicks Power Keyboard this week. It's a quality iPhone accessory and it made my thumbs very happy. But a Clicks account is required for firmware updates, and that's a deal-breaker for me. I was excited when the...
This one is a few days late. Most of my free time last week went into personal projects, and I kept choosing “one more thing” on the server over sitting down to write this. LOL.The vibeRestless, but in a good way.My brain has been stuck...
Jazzy Listenin': New Groove - Peter Beets From 1990 to 2003, my dear Grandpa presented a weekly show on the local radio station called Jazzy Listenin’. In this series, I’ll discuss his albums to honour his memory, as I listen my way...
—Rusty Epstein
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” The year of reading more and writing better is well underway with writing advice the likes of David Ogilvy’s...
Here’s a cool fish trick: abbr --add jjc --set-cursor -- 'jj commit -m "%"' This adds an abbreviation, which is a like an auto-expanding bash alias, that puts your cursor at the % character. So when I type jjc in my terminal and hit...